Recently, I was involved in a conversation where we discussed which technologies are the most urgent to develop or reinvent ; working at the intersection of social innovation, studying human behavior and technology, we talked through the given challenges of aging population, environmental degradation, sanitation and climate change. Concurrently, we…

500 years ago, Thomas More wrote a novel about the idealistic society about an Island, where the private property had been abolished, families made their own clothes and there were no lawyers, he called the island Utopia. Utopia could be traced to the Greek roots, etymologically: a good place or…

Summer 2017 I volunteered at Friends Society, Vadodara, where I taught kids who came from tribal areas basic science lessons. The first day when I walked in, I didn’t know what to expect, I saw 20 pairs of curious eyes staring back at me. Each one had incredible energy, a…

Designing a product begins with research, carefully investigating needs and user-experience. It leads to ideation, and after brainstorming on how to solve the problem; multiple iterations of design and material exploration takes place.After that, if it is feasible and potentially profitable, within the confines of modern business. At that point…

Urban spaces generally comprise of two basic elements, namely, streets and squares. Streets provide two main fundamental functions: movement and place. They are linear three-dimensional spaces, that are usually enclosed on opposite sides by buildings. However, they are different from roads/highways whose main purpose is just movement. Streets determine the…